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Meroplankton Distribution and Its Relationship Meroplankton distribution and its relationship to coastal mesoscale hydrological structure in the northern Bay of Biscay (NE Atlantic) Sakina-Dorothée Ayata, Robin Stolba, Thierry Comtet, Éric Thiébaut To cite this version: Sakina-Dorothée Ayata, Robin Stolba, Thierry Comtet, Éric Thiébaut. Meroplankton distribution and its relationship to coastal mesoscale hydrological structure in the northern Bay of Biscay (NE Atlantic). Journal of Plankton Research, Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011, 33 (8), pp.1193-1211. 10.1093/plankt/fbr030. hal-00854762 HAL Id: hal-00854762 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00854762 Submitted on 28 Aug 2013 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. 1 Meroplankton distribution and its relationship to coastal mesoscale hydrological structure in 2 the northern Bay of Biscay (NE Atlantic) 3 4 Sakina-Dorothée Ayata a, b, c,*, Robin Stolba a,b, Thierry Comtet a,b, Éric Thiébaut a,b 5 6 a Université Pierre & Marie Curie, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Laboratoire 'Adaptation et 7 diversité en milieu marin', Place Georges Teissier, F-29680 Roscoff cedex, France. 8 b CNRS, UMR 7144, F-29680, Roscoff cedex, France. 9 c Present address: Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat: Expérimentation et Approches 10 Numériques - Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, UMR 7159, BC 100, 4 Place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris 11 cedex 05, France. 12 13 * Corresponding author: [email protected] 14 15 Keywords: Meroplankton, larval transport, mesoscale structures, river plume, fronts, Owenia 16 fusiformis, Pectinaria koreni, Sabellaria alveolata, Bay of Biscay. 17 18 19 ABSTRACT 20 The relationship between meroplankton distribution and spatio-temporal variability of coastal 21 mesoscale hydrological structure was investigated in the northern Bay of Biscay, North-East 22 Atlantic. For the three coastal polychaetes studied, i.e., Pectinaria koreni, Owenia fusiformis, 23 Sabellaria alveolata, the highest larval abundances were sampled in low salinity, low density and 24 high temperature river plume waters. For two species (P. koreni and O. fusiformis), maximal 25 abundances were observed in the surface and thermocline layers due to ontogenic migrations. 26 Variance partitioning based on multiple regression and redundancy analyses were used to assess the 27 relative roles played by the hydrological environment alone, the geographical space alone, and their 28 interactions, i.e. the spatial structure of the hydrological environment. These analyses demonstrate 29 the key role played by hydrological spatial structure in the distribution of larval abundances, 30 indicating that larvae mainly act as passive particles. The hydrological environment alone was 31 insignificant, whereas geographical space alone explained a significant part of the variability in 32 meroplankton distribution, probably in conjunction with ecological processes. For species whose 33 benthic populations are spatially structured, the distribution and the size of adult populations and 34 the timing of spawning events can significantly affect larval distribution and dispersal. 1 1 INTRODUCTION 2 For marine benthic invertebrates with a complex life cycle, pelagic larval transport is a key process 3 in dispersal and population connectivity and plays a major role in population establishment and 4 persistence, biodiversity conservation, spread of alien species and species distributions (Cowen and 5 Sponaugle, 2009). Larval transport results from complex interactions of biological traits (e.g., 6 spawning time and location, larval behaviour, planktonic larval duration) and hydrodynamic 7 processes, and both vary at several spatial and temporal scales (Pineda et al., 2007). In coastal 8 environments, numerous and complex mesoscale hydrodynamic features can tightly control the 9 transport of planktonic organisms (Largier, 2003). For example, coastal invertebrate larvae may be 10 “trapped” and transported within estuarine plumes, which act as physical barriers to offshore 11 transport (Thiébaut, 1996; Shanks et al., 2002; Shanks et al., 2003a). Biological species-specific 12 traits may also modulate the role of this type of hydrodynamic feature on larval transport. In 13 particular, the vertical behaviour of some larvae may ensure their retention in suitable habitats, even 14 when local hydrodynamics is expected to induce offshore transport, as in estuaries or upwelling 15 areas (Thiébaut et al., 1992; Shanks et al., 2003b; Queiroga et al., 2007). In addition, spawning 16 time and location may be more important than larval behaviour in determining larval dispersal 17 (Edwards et al., 2007; Ayata et al., 2010; Carson et al., 2010). Sorting out which factors control 18 larval distribution and transport thus remains a challenging issue for better understanding marine 19 population connectivity and metapopulation dynamics (Gawarkiewicz et al., 2007; Pineda et al., 20 2007). Although new technological advances (e.g. biophysical models, molecular and geochemical 21 markers) and the integration of different disciplines has fostered recent progress in assessing larval 22 dispersal (Levin, 2006), mesoscale surveys are still needed to explicitly evaluate the role of most 23 physical processes on larval populations. 24 In the Bay of Biscay (North-East Atlantic, Fig. 1), numerous mesoscale hydrological 25 features, including frontal systems, river plumes, wind-induced coastal upwellings or low salinity 26 lenses, have been reported to occur simultaneously and to have large spatio-temporal variability at 27 scales ranging from days to seasons (Koutsikopoulos and Le Cann, 1996; Puillat et al., 2006). 28 These features have been demonstrated to play a role on phytoplankton primary production (Morin 29 et al., 1991; Maguer et al., 2009), zooplankton community structure (Albaina and Irigoien, 2007), 30 and plankton biomass distribution (Zarauz et al., 2007; 2008). Furthermore, the northern Bay of 31 Biscay forms a transition area between the Boreal-Arctic and the Boreal-Lusitanian biogeographic 32 provinces together with the occurrence of phylogeographic breaks in several marine taxa (Jolly et 33 al., 2006; Maggs et al., 2008). Through their influence on larval transport and population 34 connectivity, the contemporary complex hydrodynamics may participate in the maintenance of 35 these genetic breaks (Ayata et al., 2010). 2 1 In this general context, we focused on the horizontal and vertical larval distributions in three 2 target species of coastal polychaetes for which complex phylogeographic patterns have been 3 reported in the northern Bay of Biscay: Pectinaria koreni, Owenia fusiformis and Sabellaria 4 alveolata (Jolly et al., 2006; F. Rigal and F. Viard, Station Biologique de Roscoff, unpublished 5 data). For these species, pelagic larvae can be morphologically identified at the species level and the 6 extended spawning seasons increase the probability of successfully sampling larvae: (1) a major 7 spawning period in spring (April-June) and an additional spawning period in late summer-autumn 8 for P. koreni (Irlinger et al., 1991); (2) a main spawning period in spring (April-June) for O. 9 fusiformis (Gentil et al., 1990) and (3) year-round reproduction with two main reproductive peaks 10 in March-April and June-July for S. alveolata (Gruet and Lassus, 1983; Dubois et al., 2007). 11 Although these three species share the same general broadcast spawner life history, they differ in 12 their adult benthic habitats, planktonic larval durations and larval behaviours, and all of these 13 biological traits are known to significantly affect larval dispersal. P. koreni and O. fusiformis 14 inhabit patches of fine sand and muddy fine sand in shallow coastal waters at about 10-20 m depth 15 (Chassé and Glémarec, 1976; Fig. 1) whereas S. alveolata is a gregarious polychaete that builds 16 intertidal biogenic reefs. Large S. alveolata reefs have been described on sandflats of the Bay of 17 Bourgneuf south of the Loire estuary (Gruet and Lassus, 1983), while small groups of individuals 18 adhering to rocks have also been reported all along southern Brittany coasts (F. Rigal and F. Viard, 19 Station Biologique de Roscoff, unpublished data) (Fig. 1). From in situ observations, mean 20 planktonic larval durations have been estimated at about two weeks for P. koreni (Lagadeuc and 21 Retière, 1993), four weeks for O. fusiformis (Thiébaut et al., 1992), and four to ten weeks for S. 22 alveolata (Dubois et al., 2007). Moreover, these species differ in their potential larval behaviour: 23 vertical ontogenic migrations have been reported for P. koreni (Lagadeuc, 1992) and O. fusiformis 24 (Thiébaut et al., 1992), whereas complex short-term variations in S. alveolata vertical distribution 25 have been reported in relation to the tidal cycle (Dubois et al., 2007). Focusing on these three target 26 species, the aim of the present study was to assess the relative role of coastal mesoscale 27 hydrological structure and biological processes in meroplankton distribution, as well as larval 28 dispersal and connectivity.
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